The Inclusion Council

The Inclusion Council was set up by Combined Healthcare in September 2018. The Council is one of the important initiatives we have established to ramp up our activities and determination to make Combined truly inclusive and equal in the way we treat and support our staff and service users.

The Inclusion Council operates as a Steering Group to progress the Trust’s 5 BAME Inclusion workstreams, specifically:-

Developing our HR Processes for inclusion – including recruitment and selection; disciplinary and grievance; workforce equality info processes; bank and agency staff (building in inclusion from start to finish of the process)

Supporting the development of our BAME staff – developing equal and inclusive access to career, leadership and education development opportunities

Reporting, learning and improving following incidents and incidences of racist abuse and aggression (both preventing incidents as far as possible and responding better, and supporting people better when incidents do happen)